Jurisdiction of Registrar.Jurisdiction of Registrar.

Jurisdiction of Registrar.

E.B.A., s. 102.

N.S.W., ss. 137, 143.

S.A., s. 48.

W.A., s. 92.

Tas., s. 64.

24.—(1.) Subject to rules, a Registrar shall have, in addition to the powers which may be delegated to him by the Court under the provisions of this Act, the following powers, duties and jurisdiction of the Court, namely—

(a) To hear debtors’ petitions and to make sequestration orders thereon, or to give leave to withdraw the petitions;

(b) To hold a public sitting for the examination of any bankrupt, and adjourn the same from time to time and direct further examination; to appoint a time and place for the examination or further or adjourned examination; and to put such questions to the bankrupt as he thinks expedient;

(c) To approve compositions or schemes of arrangement when they are not opposed;

(d) To order to attend before him and examine the bankrupt or his wife, or, where the bankrupt is a married woman, her husband, or any person known or suspected to have in his possession property of the bankrupt or to be indebted to him, or to be capable of giving information respecting the bankrupt, his trade dealings, property or affairs;

(e) To do any act or thing or give any direction or permission by this Act authorized or required to be done or given by the committee of inspection, where there is no such committee;

(f) To grant an order of discharge where the application is not opposed;

(g) To direct payment out of the pay, pension, salary, emoluments, profits, wages, earnings or income of any bankrupt, and the application thereof;

(h) To give directions to the official receiver or trustee in relation to any matter relating to a bankruptcy;

(i) To adjourn any proceedings before him, to amend any written process or proceedings under this Act, and to take the whole or any part of the evidence in any matter either vivâ voce or otherwise;

(j) To authorize the official receiver or trustee to commence and prosecute any action in the name of the official receiver or trustee and of the bankrupt’s partner;

(k) Subject to section seven of this Act to declare any proceeding in bankruptcy invalidated by a formal defect or irregularity;

(l) To declare that a secured creditor voting in respect of his whole debt shall not be deemed to have surrendered his security if the Registrar is satisfied that the omission to value the security has arisen from inadvertence;

(m) To give directions as to sale of property comprised in any security;

(n) To exercise the powers of the Court under section sixty-two of this Act; and